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government
is avoiding releasing some projection and modeling data from Covid-19 to
avoid panic in communities and possible stigma, saying the projections were
fluid and not “evangelical truth,” according to a Sunday report.
According to the Sunday Times, experts
believed that limiting the flow of scientific data on the pandemic meant that
the government would make decisions about reopening the economy based on
data that citizens did not know.
But according to the presidency
spokesperson Khusela Diko, the government was withholding models to avoid having them
being known as the “gospel truth”, the Sunday publication
reported.
Diko told the publication that
The Scientific and Industrial Research Council (CSIR) had said that
projections were fluid, and that government did not want to turn off the
information when it can change.
However, they recognize the
need for people to feel that they can make informed decisions.
Diko was quoted saying that
“I need to allow people to feel more in control.” That was something
that was not being done as well as they could, “because when people are
armed with information, they feel they are taking over their
live, “instead of just receiving information from the government, he added.
News24 reported earlier this week
which according to one of the government’s leading epidemiologists, Dr. Harry
Moultrie, there was a “considerable” uncertainty about the spread and
the effectiveness of the state and people’s interventions to slow the spread of
the virus.
Moultrie also participates in
mapping and modeling the spread of the coronavirus.
Moultrie said it was expected
which parts of the country’s health system would be overwhelmed as a result
of a “rapid expected increase in the number of Covid-19 cases during the
the next few months “.
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By Saturday South Africa had 9
420 coronavirus cases and 186 deaths, the Western Cape being the largest
Taxpayer, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced at a press conference.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has in
In recent weeks, they visited the CSIR offices in Pretoria, where the Department of
The health data center is configured.
Coronavirus data analysis.
reported by the Department of Health has already shown that it increases in cases
They have already started.
News24 reported that the
Chairman of the Ministerial Advisory Committee Professor Salim Abdool Karim
He said this week that increases in cases were not yet cause for concern.
On Friday, the country saw its
highest peak of one day in new cases, reaching 663 cases.
Moultrie previously said there
epidemic growth would be expected in the country as many return to work
after the relaxation of the blockade and the opening of some parts of the economy from
May 1.
“There,
however, there remains considerable uncertainty regarding both biological aspects of
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the quantitative effectiveness of interventions by
government and people to decrease transmission, “Moultrie
previously said.
– Compiled by Sesona Ngqakamba
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